Support Scroll.in

Support Scroll.in Your support is crucial: India needs independent media and independent media needs you.

Become a Member

Alexander the Great

Why Alexander the Great was treated with hostility in Zoroastrian literature

Ursula Sims-Williams
· Feb 22, 2023 · 09:30 pm
Feeling an affinity with Alexander the Great, Akbar commissioned a special manuscript on his life

Ursula Sims Wiliams
· Feb 21, 2023 · 09:30 pm
Not just Alexander the Great, there are myths around his pet dog too

Yrja Thorsdottir
· Feb 17, 2023 · 11:30 pm
How Alexander the Great became Iskandar Zulkarnain, the legendary ancestor of Malay kings

Annabel Teh Gallop
· Feb 06, 2023 · 07:30 pm
How Persian literature imagined Alexander the Great’s romantic relationships around the world

Sunil Sharma
· Jan 04, 2023 · 09:30 pm
In Turkic literature, Alexander the Great appears as both a legend and a divine king

Michael Erdman
· Nov 23, 2022 · 11:30 pm
In illustrations: Tales of conquests and adventures from the life of Alexander the Great

Ursula Sims-Williams
· Oct 27, 2022 · 07:30 pm
How did Alexander become ‘the Great’? A new exhibition explores the making of a myth

Ursula Sims-Williams
· Sep 26, 2022 · 07:30 pm
Porus battles Alexander in Sony TV’s opulent historical drama

Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
· Nov 17, 2017 · 01:30 pm